Heading to the Hamptons? If you’re looking to eat healthfully while lounging on the beach, be sure to stop by Juicy Naam for delicious, organic, smoothies and raw foods.  If you want to take things up a notch, try the Juicy Naam Cleanse and transform your health.  With locations in both East Hampton and Sag Harbor, you can enjoy a delicious, healthy juice and raw foods while soaking up your vitamin D!

Check them out at: www.thejuicynaam.us

Delicious AND healthy foods? Yes, they exist! Discover five tasty superfoods for women and five for men that can help reduce high blood pressure and fight osteoporosis and certain cancers.  Start eating for better health today! Do you have any other superfoods to share?

Author Michael Pollan and vegan actress and author Alicia Silverstone appeared recently on Oprah to discuss the importance of a mindful, healthy diet, the perils of grocery shopping, and changes we can all make toward better nutrition for mind, body, and planet. View the episode on Oprah’s website.

What exactly is Clean Plates NYC, and who is it for? In this short video, founder and coauthor Jared Koch presents a simple description of how his restaurant and nutrition guide can serve as a helpful and accessible resource for New Yorkers and visitors alike.

Coming up at Urban Zen: The FitTown Town Hall will bring together advocates for child health and present solutions that enhance physical and emotional health and wellness for children and teens in the home, at school and in the community. The goal is to engage parents and school staff as agents of change in bringing proactive health and healing practices to American youth. Learn more about www.urbanzen.org.

Day 1: March 10, 2010
Nutrition in Schools
with Ras Baraka, Annemarie Colbin, PhD, Alexandra Jamieson, First Lady Michelle Paige Paterson, Barnaby Spring, and Brian Wansink, PhD
Creating a Healthy Environment
with Kristy Borak, Michael Conard, Sarkis Kalashian, Eric Komoroff and Jean McTavish
Food Thought in Underserved Communities
with Sarita Dhuper, MD , FACC , Anna Hammond, Terri Kennedy, PhD, Craig King and Jerusha Klemperer

Day 2: March 11, 2010
Kids Going Green
with Theresa Dolan, Sarah Fishstrom, Lynn Fredricks,  Annie Novak, Joy Pierson, Akiima Price and Kim Wiley-Schwartz
Exercise, Music and Art Therapy for Kids
with Yong Kim Cedro, Anne Desmond, Beth DeFuria, James O’Brien, Mache Seibel, MD and Clyde Valentin
Spirituality and Mental Resiliency
with Dianne Connelly, Heath Grant, PhD, Tara Guber, Stephen Josephson, MD , Lisa Oz and Alan Wherry

FitTown: A Healthy Path for Kids
Wednesday & Thursday March 10 & 11, 2010
Urban Zen Center at the Stephan Weiss Studio
711 Greenwich Street (at Charles Street)
New York, NY 10014
Tickets: $180 for both days or $100 per individual day
For more information: rsvp@urbanzen.org or 212.414.8520

The Council on the Environment of New York City presents Rock N Grow, a Concert for Youth Education, great bands for a good cause — education programs for NYC’s young people. All proceeds benefit CENYC’s youth education programs, including: Learn It, Grow It, Eat It; Environmental Education; Greenmarket Youth Education Program; Youthmarket. The Council on the Environment of NYC (CENYC) is a hands-on non-profit which improves New York City’s quality of life through environmental programs that transform communities block by block and empower all New Yorkers to secure a clean and healthy environment for future generations.

Featuring:
Davey and the Trainwreck
2/3 Goat
Pie Boys Flat
Cash bar and complimentary Greenmarket snacks

Learn more at www.cenyc.org/ee/rockngrow.

Rock N Grow, a Concert for Youth Education
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Doors open at 7:00 pm, concert begins at 8:00 pm
Sullivan Hall
214 Sullivan Street (between Bleecker and West 3rd)
Tickets $20 in advance at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/97937, or $25 at the door

Coming up at Urban Zen: Learn how you can meet the special dietary needs of children living with autism, ADHD , asthma and allergies from experts Dr. Kenneth Bock, author of “Healing the New Childhood Epidemics,” and pediatrician Dr. Stephen Cowan. During this one day experiential workshop, you’ll glean insights from experts working on the front lines of nutrition therapy and dietary management for children. Then, you’ll get a taste of what the experts are really talking about through hands-on innovative food “labs” and cooking experiences that translate nutrition and dietary advice to the kitchen space and child’s plate. You will leave with the knowledge and
the practical tools to implement restorative dietary practices into your lifestyle and your children’s. The workshop will also feature a lunchtime presentation by renowned author and editor-at-large of Psychology Today Hara Estroff Marano. Learn more at www.urbanzen.org.

Food Solutions: Managing Autism, ADHD, Asthma and Allergies
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
9:00 am – 4:30 pm
Urban Zen Center at the Stephan Weiss Studio
711 Greenwich Street (at Charles Street)
New York, NY 10014
Tickets: $80
For more information: rsvp@urbanzen.org or 212.414.8520

Foodprint NYC is the first in a series of international conversations about food and the city. From a cluster analysis of bodega inventories to the cultural impact of the ice-box, and from food deserts to peak phosphorus, panelists will examine the hidden corsetry that gives shape to urban foodscapes, and collaboratively speculate on how to feed New York in the future. The free afternoon program will include designers, policy-makers, flavor scientists, culinary historians, food retailers, and others, for a wide-ranging discussion of New York’s food systems, past and present, as well as opportunities to transform our edible landscape through technology, architecture, legislation, and education.

Speakers include:
• Joel Berg: Executive Director, New York City Coalition Against Hunger
• Makalé Faber Cullen: cultural anthropologist; former Program Director, Slow Food USA
• Stanley Fleishman: CEO, Jetro
• Thomas Forster: policy advisor, School Food FOCUS; co-chair, Food Systems Network of New York City
• Joseph Grima: Director, Storefront for Art and Architecture; co-architect, Landgrab City installation
• William Grimes: New York Times restaurant critic (1999-2003)
• Annie Hauck-Lawson: President, Association for the Study of Food and Society
• Natalie Jeremijenko: Director, xDesignEnvironmental Health Clinic, NYU
• Naa Oyo A. Kwate: Assistant Professor, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Schedule:
Zoning Diet (1:00 – 1:55 pm)
Culinary Cartography (2:00 – 2:55 pm)
Edible Archaeology (3:30 – 4:25 pm)
Feast, Famine, and Other Scenarios (4:30 – 5:25 pm)

Foodprint NYC
Saturday, February 27, 2010
1:00 – 5:30 pm
Studio-X
180 Varick St., Suite 1610
New York, NY 10014
Free and open to the public

For more information, please visit www.foodprintproject.com.

On Tuesday, February 16, Clean Plates founder and coauthor Jared Koch had the pleasure of speaking with Rachel Lerner on her “Healthy Bits and Bites” blogtalkradio program. Rachel’s show is an enthusiastic, empowering program about healthy living and positive change, in which she interviews experts in the fields of health and wellness. Listen to the program online at http://ow.ly/186vl.

Umami: Food and Art Festival, a non-profit, biennale event, works in partnership with other organizations in New York City to foster collaborations between artists and food professionals. By approaching food through art, Umami frames it as stimulating and inspiring, a positive approach leading to innovative solutions to some of the national challenges we face today. The festival features events that are interdisciplinary and collaborative, creating an interchange of ideas and stirring debate about the role of food and art in our society, creating long-term collaborative relationships between organizations and individuals from different fields.

Learn more and buy tickets at www.umamifestival2010.com.

Umami: Food and Art Festival
February 24 – March 14, 2010